This has all been seen before !

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2003)

Happened to buy this on a bright red DVD during a visit to the UK in May 2003! I found it to be a combination of "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" and "No Blade Of Grass" though I found "No BLade of Grass" a better and more realistic film to watch.
Of course we are now in 2003, and presumably the public want more bad language, blood and violence than before. So if you like the aforementioned, you will be pleased as the film delivers just that. I personally am not, which is why I preferred "No Blade of Grass" as I am more interested in seeing how people react in the face of a national catastrophe. That film did contain some violent scenes and bad language but no more than you would expect in that sort of a situation ( when it's every man for himself and you have to kill to survive ). In 28 days later the violence is overblown. There is violence for violence's sake and I do not think it corresponds to what would be the reality in the face of such a virus. There are some interesting shots of a deserted London but the colouring looks artificial, as if it were digitally reproduced. I may be wrong, but if it is the case, the cameraman is cheating. There is no need for this. Nature itself produces some incredible lighting effects withough having to re-create thjese digitally. At one moment we see rain falling in a weird way. This looks digitally artificial too.
I like the sort of film where man has to use his resourcefulness in an unforeseen and catastrophic situation, but as I had seen it all before in "No Blade of Grass", which did leave some marks on me, I found that "28 days later" was just a sombre and more violent update of that. I would give it more marks for the soundtrack as that of "NO Blade of Grass was tinny, pathetic and too seventies-ish, bar, of course the beautiful title track sung by Roger Whittaker which I have on CD. I cannot recommend nor condemn this film, but the level of bad language and gratuitous violence contained therein is A SAD REFLECTION ON THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR SOCIETY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY if such violence is now necessary to attract audiences to the cinema.
It's difficult for me to be more complimentary about this film. Sorry !